Amar Desh acting editor sent to jail
Thursday, 3 June 2010
The metropolitan magistrate court Wednesday rejected the petition for police remand of Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of the daily Amar Desh, asking the police to interrogate him at the jail gate, report agencies.
Arrested from his office at the wee hours Wednesday in two cases, Rahman was sent to jail in the Tejgaon Shilpanchal police case that accused him of assaulting and obstructing them to perform their duty.
Police raided the Amar Desh office at Karwan bazaar at about 11 pm Tuesday and kept it under seize till he was taken into custody early in the morning. Simultaneously, the press of the daily at Tejgaon was sealed on government order cancelling the declaration of Amar Desh.
The court granted him bail in the fraud case filed Tuesday afternoon by Hashmat Ali, publisher of Amar Desh Publications Limited.
Police produced Mahmudur Rahman before the court of Magistrate Nazrul Islam at 4-30 pm and sought for five-day remand.
A host of lawyers stood for him in the court with bail petitions when BNP supporters agitated on the court premises demanding release of Mahmudur Rahman when he was taken to the court.
Meanwhile, journalists and other professionals held a protest meeting and took out a procession on Wednesday demanding reopening of Bengali-language daily newspaper Amar Desh.
They also demanded release of the newspaper's acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, threatening to take out more serious protests if he was not released by Saturday
Chaired by Ruhul Amin Gazi, the president of one faction of the Bangladesh Federation Union of Journalists, the meeting was addressed by former advisory editor Ataus Samad, opposition chief whip Zainal Abedin Farroque, BNP MP Abul Khair Bhuiyan, Jamaat-e-Islami MP Hamidur Rahman Azad, Dr Jahid Hossain, former president of Doctors' Association of Bangladesh, Kamrul Hasan, a leader of the Professionals Forum, poet Abdul Hai Shikder and the filmmaker Chasi Nazrul Islam.
Arrested from his office at the wee hours Wednesday in two cases, Rahman was sent to jail in the Tejgaon Shilpanchal police case that accused him of assaulting and obstructing them to perform their duty.
Police raided the Amar Desh office at Karwan bazaar at about 11 pm Tuesday and kept it under seize till he was taken into custody early in the morning. Simultaneously, the press of the daily at Tejgaon was sealed on government order cancelling the declaration of Amar Desh.
The court granted him bail in the fraud case filed Tuesday afternoon by Hashmat Ali, publisher of Amar Desh Publications Limited.
Police produced Mahmudur Rahman before the court of Magistrate Nazrul Islam at 4-30 pm and sought for five-day remand.
A host of lawyers stood for him in the court with bail petitions when BNP supporters agitated on the court premises demanding release of Mahmudur Rahman when he was taken to the court.
Meanwhile, journalists and other professionals held a protest meeting and took out a procession on Wednesday demanding reopening of Bengali-language daily newspaper Amar Desh.
They also demanded release of the newspaper's acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, threatening to take out more serious protests if he was not released by Saturday
Chaired by Ruhul Amin Gazi, the president of one faction of the Bangladesh Federation Union of Journalists, the meeting was addressed by former advisory editor Ataus Samad, opposition chief whip Zainal Abedin Farroque, BNP MP Abul Khair Bhuiyan, Jamaat-e-Islami MP Hamidur Rahman Azad, Dr Jahid Hossain, former president of Doctors' Association of Bangladesh, Kamrul Hasan, a leader of the Professionals Forum, poet Abdul Hai Shikder and the filmmaker Chasi Nazrul Islam.